Former Texas Right to Life Political Director Charged with Soliciting Child Sex

Shane Trejo |

Aug 26, 2022

Former Texas Right to Life political director Luke Bowen has been charged with soliciting sexual activity from a minor.

He has been charged under Texas Penal Code – PENAL § 33.021 § 33.021, Online Solicitation of a Minor, which states the following:

“A person commits an offense if the person, over the Internet, by electronic mail or text message or other electronic message service or system, or through a commercial online service, knowingly solicits a minor to meet another person, including the actor, with the intent that the minor will engage in sexual contact, sexual intercourse, or deviate sexual intercourse with the actor or another person.”

According to Bowen’s LinkedIn page, he served as political director from July 2017 to 2022. Current Revolt reached out to Texas Right to Life, and the organization said Bowen was fired on Aug. 3, the day of his arrest for allegedly soliciting a minor for sexual activity.

Big League Politics has reported on the civil war in the Texas GOP brewing between the entrenched establishment and the right-wing activist base:

“Texas Senator John Cornyn received massive pushback from Republican Party of Texas convention delegates on June 17, 2022.

The reason?

His support of the bipartisan gun control “framework” that was rolled out earlier this week in the United States Senate.

Delegates loudly chanted “No Red Flags!” throughout the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston when Cornyn took the stage.

National Association for Gun Rights and Texas Gun Rights were present at this convention while activists handed out flyers to attendees. These flyers featured a message in which NAGR and TXGR called on the Texas Senator to “end his support of ‘Red Flag’ gun confiscation laws.”

Earlier in the week, Cornyn hinted at passing a national “Red Flag” grant program for states nationwide. Red flag gun confiscation orders would grant judges the power to issue orders to confiscate firearms from individuals who are deemed a threat to themselves or others.

On the Senate Floor Cornyn spoke in favor of this grant program, “I believe that we ought to put every state in a position of seeking and receiving funds for crisis intervention programs that they have in place already, even if they don’t have a red flag law.”

The attendees were constantly booing throughout the convention as Cornyn gave a speech before the delegates. A video recording of this speech can be found here.”

For many decades, Right to Life has been a rubberstamp for Republican establishment politicians in order to hand over well-meaning Christian voters to the GOP machine. It should come as no surprise that the individuals running this organization may be disreputable or criminal.

Former Texas Right to Life Political Director Charged with Soliciting Child Sex

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